Athens in winter

The Greeks now clear their plates, burn wood, buy just a litre of petrol to drive to a wedding. The future as it had been conceived has disappeared.

by Panagiotis Grigoriou

Up in smoke — Late 2012: a group of workers, pensioners and unemployed sit in a café in central Athens discussing the vote to be held in their apartment block in a few days. Should they get the building’s tanks refilled with oil for central heating? Should the heating for the whole building, (...)